Electoral district of Ipswich

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2008 Electoral Map

Ipswich is a Legislative Assembly of Queensland electoral district on the Brisbane River, west of Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland. The electorate includes Ipswich and its suburbs, south and east of the Bremer River, west of Bundamba Creek and north of the Cunningham Highway.

History

The electoral district of Town of Ipswich was one of the original 16 established in 1859, when Queensland became a separate colony. It returned 3 members.

In the redistribution of 1872, its name was shortened to just "Ipswich" and it became a single member constituency, due to the creation of the electoral district of Bundamba. In the redistribution of 1878, it absorbed the electoral district of Bremer and became a dual-member constituency.

In 1912, it again reverted to a single member constituency, due to the re-introduction of the single-member electoral district of Bremer.

Members for Ipswich

Town of Ipswich: First incarnation (1860–1960),   3 members until 1873
Member 1		Party	Term	Member 2		Party	Term	Member 3		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Frederick Forbes	Unaligned	1860–1863	Template:Australian party style|	Patrick O'Sullivan	Unaligned	1860–1863	rowspan = 2 Template:Australian party style|	Arthur Macalister	Unaligned	1860–1868
Template:Australian party style|	Ratcliffe Pring	Unaligned	1863–1866	Template:Australian party style|	Henry Challinor	Unaligned	1863–1868
Template:Australian party style|	George Reed	Unaligned	1866–1867	rowspan = 4 Template:Australian party style|	John Thompson	Unaligned	1868–1873	rowspan = 2 Template:Australian party style|	Henry Williams	Unaligned	1868–1870
Template:Australian party style|	John Murphy	Unaligned	1867–1870
rowspan = 2 Template:Australian party style|	Benjamin Cribb	Unaligned	1870–1873	Template:Australian party style|				John Johnston	Unaligned	1870–1872
Template:Australian party style|				Arthur Macalister				Unaligned	1872–1873
Ipswich: 1873–1878,   1 member
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Arthur Macalister	Unaligned	1873–1876
Template:Australian party style|	George Thorn, Jr.	Unaligned	1876–1878
1878–1912,   2 members
Member 1		Party	Term	Member 2		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	John Thompson	Unaligned	1878–1881	rowspan = 4 Template:Australian party style|	John MacFarlane	Ministerialist	1878–1894
Template:Australian party style|	Josiah Francis	Unaligned	1881–1883
Template:Australian party style|	William Salkeld	Unaligned	1883–1888
Template:Australian party style|	Andrew Henry Barlow	Ministerialist	1888–1896
Template:Australian party style|	James Wilkinson	Labour	1894–1896	Template:Australian party style|	Alfred Stephenson	Ministerialist	1896–1902
Template:Australian party style|	Thomas Bridson Cribb	Ministerialist	1896–1904	rowspan = 2 Template:Australian party style|	Sir James Blair	Independent/ Ministerialist/ Opposition	1902–1912
Template:Australian party style|	William Maughan	Labour	1904–1912
1912–1960,   1 member
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Sir James Blair	Ministerialist/Independent	1912–1915
Template:Australian party style|	David Gledson	Labor	1915–1929
Template:Australian party style|	James Walker	Country and Progressive National	1929–1932
Template:Australian party style|	David Gledson	Labor	1932–1949
Template:Australian party style|	Ivor Marsden	Labor	1949–1960

Second incarnation (1972–present),   1 member
Member		Party	Term
Template:Australian party style|	Llew Edwards	Liberal	1972–1983
Template:Australian party style|	David Hamill	Labor	1983–2001
Template:Australian party style|	Rachel Nolan	Labor	2001–2012
Template:Australian party style|	Ian Berry	Liberal National	2012–2015
Template:Australian party style|	Jennifer Howard	Labor	2015–present